I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Every heartbeat is a history of decisions, of certain roads taken and others forsaken until you end up exactly where you are.” — Kate Harris Copy Share Image
I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Ayrton and I shared a lot of incredible races, where he was first and I was second and vice-versa. I think it's… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in… The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and… — Debra Komar Copy Share Image
Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish,… — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
Lucio Tan Group has had an historic interest in education. From my days as a struggling working student, I knew that education… — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of mankind we've always been subject to the whims of whatever our ruling body is saying. However the political… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
“As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism.” — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac Copy Share Image
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
